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The Islamic State of the Tripoli Province is a Wahhabi Islamist terrorist group affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

History
The Islamic State of the Tripoli Province (ISTP) was a Libyan affiliate of the Islamic State based out of Tripoli - the city of Derna, also in northern Libya, was also an IS affiliate. The ISTP stated that the seaside Corintiha Hotel in Tripoli housed diplomatic missions and "crusader" security companies, so five gunmen attacked the hotel on 27 January 2015. Two gunmen killed ten people, including an American, a Frenchman, and three Asians, and a car bomb also went off during the violence. Ten Libyan guards were killed before the two gunmen were killed. The group claimed responsibility, saying that it was revenge for the United States' abduction of al-Qaeda member Abu Anas al-Libi from Libya (the man died in January while on trial in New York).